Javier Parrondo Babarro, a 41-year-old career diplomat, is the new Director General of Casa Asia. The Governing Council of the institution, meeting this afternoon in Barcelona, has unanimously approved his appointment. Javier Parrondo replaces David Navarro as head of Casa Asia
Born in Madrid on November 12, 1977, he graduated in Law from the Universidad Carlos III from Madrid, and joined the Diplomatic Service in 2004. Since August 2018, he has been stationed at the Spanish Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. Previously, he was head of the Department of Cooperation with the Arab World and Asia at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), collaborating in the design and implementation of Spanish development cooperation policy in North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
The new Director of Casa Asia He has been Deputy Consul at the Consulate General of Spain in Jerusalem, and was previously posted at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the United Nations based in Geneva, and at the Embassies in Hanoi (Vietnam) and Kabul (Afghanistan).
In Madrid he has worked in the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and for Latin America, and in the General Subdirectorate of the Middle East.
Javier Parrondo Babarro, new general director of Casa Asia
The Governing Council of Casa Asia, the highest collegiate management body of the institution, made up of representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Barcelona City Council and the Madrid City Council, welcomes the new Director General and appreciates the task carried out by his predecessor, David Navarro, who held this responsibility from July 2017 to July 2019.
With this appointment, Casa Asia continues to reinforce its role as a reference and meeting point in our country in the Asia-Pacific region, with the main mission of contributing to better knowledge and promotion of the relations between both civil societies, in the institutional, economic, cultural, and educational. Casa Asia It is headquartered in Barcelona and has a center in Madrid.
